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Re: Obama ''extraordinarily impressed'' by European *leadership* . . . |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Apr 7 13:28:16 2009, in response to Re: Obama ''extraordinarily impressed'' by European *leadership* . . ., posted by SMAZ on Tue Apr 7 04:40:09 2009. The Working Time Directive (from 1993) imposes a work week that does not exceed 48 hours. (That means not only is overtime illegal assuming a six-day work week, but you're capped at eight hours OT in a 40-hour week.) Up until recently, countries could opt out of this directive; back in December of last year, the European Parliament voted to end the opt-out. None of this affects vacation time agreements that I can see, but workers are going to have to stay home a lot more and not travel as much; not very good for the economy nor for tax generation.(Sarko used this in order to get rid of France's 35-hour work week; he "loosened" the week hours in '07, and subsequently his parliament voted to scrap the 35-hour week altogether in July of last year. All of this after "pledging" to leave the 35-hour week alone. And if you think that's bad, you should see Sarkozy's attacks on laïcité . . .) |
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